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“The Passion According to the Prophets”<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Sermon 1: “The Suffering Servant” (Isaiah 53) Jump to “The Suffering Servant” Sermon<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Focus:<\/strong> Isaiah foretells Jesus’ suffering 700 years before it happened. Isaiah’s prophecy about the suffering servant shows how His pain brings healing for us.<\/p>\n

Sermon 2: “The Rejected Prophet” (Amos 2:12) Jump to “The Rejected Prophet” Sermon<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/strong>Focus: Like the prophets before Him, Jesus too was rejected by His own people. But this rejection is a central part of His mission of salvation of His people.<\/p>\n

Sermon 3: “The Shepherd Who Lays Down His Life” (Ezekiel 34:23-24) Jump to “The Shepherd Who Lays Down His Life”<\/span> Sermon<\/span><\/a>
\n<\/strong>Focus: False prophets were crushing God\u2019s people leading them away from the Word. Ezekiel\u2019s prophecy points to God\u2019s promise of a true shepherd who will care for His flock. Jesus comes and fulfills this by laying down His life for His sheep.<\/p>\n

Sermon 4: “The Triumphant King” (Zechariah 9:9) Jump to “The Triumphant King” Sermon<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/strong>Focus:<\/strong> The sermon focuses on the fulfillment of Zechariah’s prophecy in Jesus’ triumphal entry, showing that He comes not with worldly power but with peace and salvation. His victory is won through His sacrificial death, offering us eternal life. It invites us to embrace His humble kingship and reflect on His sacrifice during Lent.<\/p>\n

Sermon 5: “The New Covenant” (Jeremiah 31:31-34) Jump to “The New Covenant” Sermon<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/strong>Focus:<\/strong> New Testament = New Covenant. Old things have passed away. Jeremiah states the promise of a new covenant written on hearts. Jesus fulfills in as he shed his blood on the new covenant for us<\/p>\n

CLOSING: “Voices at the Cross… from the Prophets to The Prophet”\u00a0 – Good Friday Sermon Jump to Good Friday Sermon<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Sermon 1: “The Suffering Servant” (Isaiah 53)<\/h2>\n

Sermon \u2013 March 12th, 2025
\n<\/strong>Hope Lutheran Church, PoCo BC
\n<\/strong>Text: Isaiah 52
\n<\/strong>Theme: “The Suffering Servant”<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Intr \u2013<\/strong> I am Isaiah. A servant of the Lord. A prophet, called to speak a word that is often hard to bear. I walk the streets of Jerusalem, crying out to a people who have turned their hearts away from God. They seek their own way. They trust in their own strength. They long for a Saviour\u2014but not this<\/em> kind of Saviour.<\/p>\n

Yet the Lord has given me a vision. A vision that does not look like victory. It looks like defeat. It looks like sorrow, pain, and suffering. It is the vision of the Servant<\/strong>\u2014the One who will redeem us, but at a great cost.<\/p>\n

Pierced for Our Transgressions<\/strong><\/p>\n

It happened like this: One day, God gave me a vision. I saw a man, but not the kind of man anyone would expect. He didn\u2019t look royal or majestic, and He certainly didn\u2019t come with armies to destroy our enemies. No, He was humble, rejected, despised. He was a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. I could feel the weight of it, the weight of His pain, like a burden He carried not just for Himself but for everyone else.<\/p>\n

As I watched, I felt a deep sorrow, because I knew how this Servant would be treated. I knew how the people would look at Him and turn away. He was despised. People turned away their faces, as if ashamed to look at Him.<\/strong> “Who is He?” they whispered. “Nothing special. Just another man suffering the consequences of His own actions.”<\/p>\n

But they wouldn\u2019t understand. They wouldn\u2019t understand that He was not suffering for His own sins. No, He was suffering for ours. And they were wrong. This was no ordinary man suffering for His own sins. He was the Son of God, the promised Messiah, Yeshua. Jesus.[1]<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

I wanted to cry out to the people, to make them see! “This is not His suffering\u2014this is ours!” But they would not listen. They would not understand. And here’s the part that crushed me the most. They\u2019d think that this Servant was being punished for something He\u2019d done wrong. They would see His suffering and say, “He deserves it.” They wouldn\u2019t know that His suffering was for them. They wouldn\u2019t see that His pain was the only way to heal the brokenness and pain.<\/p>\n

The Lamb Who Was Silent<\/strong><\/p>\n

I watched as He was led to the slaughter like a lamb, silent, bearing the full weight of the world\u2019s sin without a word of protest. No one would stand up for Him. No one would defend Him. The people would stand back, watching, not understanding what was happening. But I knew. I knew that He wasn\u2019t just some man who had been forsaken by God, but God\u2019s answer to the world\u2019s sin.<\/p>\n

I heard the Lord say, “It is through His suffering that My people will be healed. Through His wounds, they will be made whole.” And I knew it was true. I saw that this suffering wasn\u2019t meaningless. It was the price of our healing. It was the price of our forgiveness.<\/p>\n

No one stood up for Him. They all abandoned Him. And then, the final blow. He was cut off from the land of the living. Buried in a rich man’s tomb. It was finished.<\/p>\n

Or so it seemed. For then, I\u2019ve learned from the Lord that \u201cBy His Wounds we are Healed\u201d.<\/p>\n

By His Wounds, We Are Healed<\/strong><\/p>\n

I know, it sounds backwards, doesn\u2019t it? How could the Servant\u2019s suffering bring healing? It doesn\u2019t make sense in the world\u2019s eyes. But God\u2019s ways are not our ways. The Servant\u2019s pain, His sacrifice, would restore what we had lost. It would be the turning point in the history of the world, the moment where God would take our shame and replace it with His grace, take our guilt and replace it with forgiveness.<\/p>\n

But still, it wasn\u2019t easy to bear. I couldn\u2019t help but wonder, as I saw Him suffering in my vision, how it could be that this was God\u2019s plan. How could this man\u2014this humble, despised man\u2014be the One to save us? But the Lord revealed to me: Through His suffering, we are healed.<\/strong><\/p>\n